Rehearsed

Rehearsed as a wargame or simulation, it was then enacted for the viewing public as a simulation: as a news event, with its paraphernalia of embedded journalists and missile's-eye-view video cameras, it was a videogame.

Jean Baudrillard's death did not take place Jonathan 2007

Rehearsed as a wargame or simulation, it was then enacted for the viewing public as a simulation: as a news event, with its paraphernalia of embedded journalists and missile's-eye-view video cameras, it was a videogame.

Archive 2007-03-01 Jonathan 2007

In "Moby-Dick -- Rehearsed" Welles showed one last time that he still knew how to make magic happen on a stage, but otherwise he kept banging his head vainly against the wall of an indifferent film industry.

Importantitis, Enemy of Art 2008

As for the barnstorming troupes that used to criss-cross the country, the rise of regional theater has largely killed them off, save for the Shakespeare festivals that send bus-and-truck shows to local communities -- and the New York-based Acting Company, whose productions of Orson Welles's "Moby-Dick -- Rehearsed" and "The Tempest" are playing this week in Tacoma, Wash., after which they'll be seen in 40 more cities from coast to coast.

Welles and the White Whale 2008

I've had the boy wonder of Hollywood on my mind lately, having recently reviewed productions of "Moby-Dick -- Rehearsed," his 1955 stage version of Herman Melville's novel, and "Orson's Shadow," the 2000 play in which Austin Pendleton shows us Welles a few years after "Moby-Dick -- Rehearsed" -- demoralized by repeated failure and unable to get his career back on track.

Importantitis, Enemy of Art 2008

"Moby-Dick -- Rehearsed" and its companion production, "The Tempest," come to New York's Baruch Performing Arts Center on May 6 for a week-and-a-half run.

Welles and the White Whale 2008

Casey Biggs, best known as a Washington-based stage actor who also played Damar in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," has directed "Moby-Dick -- Rehearsed" with close and rewarding attention to its lyric quality: The first act is more or less naturalistic, the second act frankly expressionistic, and the transition from one mode to the other is made with seamless stealth.

Welles and the White Whale 2008

Rehearsed and coached by committee member Lindsay Graham (and by some of the same lawyers who justified Bush's NSA wiretaps), he instead spoke deferentially and humbly about respecting legal precedent and separation of powers, while Republican committee members made him out to be a mix of Solomon and Mother Teresa.

Paul Loeb: Filibuster Bush, Impeach Alito 2008

"Moby-Dick -- Rehearsed" was to be one of his rare midlife ventures into the medium that won him his first fame.

Welles and the White Whale 2008

Rehearsed or not, the line clearly helped Huckabee gain some priceless earned media in the postdebate coverage — no easy task in a crowd of 10 GOP presidential hopefuls in what has been the largely circuslike atmosphere of the debates.

Take That! 2007